Carl Pei’s Nothing reportedly plans to launch a smartphone by subsequent month

Nothing, the patron tech model led by OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, is planning to launch its debut smartphone by subsequent month, in line with a report from TechCrunch. The firm has reportedly been engaged on the cellphone for over a yr, and Pei is alleged to have proven off a prototype to executives from firms together with Qualcomm at this week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

An April launch would come a bit underneath a yr after the corporate launched its debut product, a pair of wi-fi earbuds referred to as the Ear 1. The cellphone will reportedly comprise related design parts to the earbuds, corresponding to utilizing clear parts, though different particulars on the brand new system are restricted. TechCrunch cites a supply with direct data of the corporate’s plans.

Pei has all the time been clear that he expects Nothing to broaden into extra product classes over time. In an interview with The Verge final January, Pei stated that the plan was to finally supply an ecosystem of various gadgets, and the next month, Nothing purchased the rights to the Essential model, which launched a single Android smartphone in 2017 earlier than shutting down lower than three years later. Last November, an organization govt in India stated Nothing had five new products in development.

More just lately, Pei seems to have been teasing some sort of Android announcement. On February fifteenth, the manager tweeted that he was “Back on Android,” just for the model accounts for each Android and Snapdragon to put up equally cryptic teases in response. Even the official model account for Nothing has teased that “March is going to be fun.”

A consultant from Nothing didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for touch upon TechCrunch’s report.